BG consumer units

[DuaneMHunt1976]

20-Way Metal Consumer Unit & 100A Switch | Domestic Consumer Units | Screwfix.com

it didnt have stock clearce when i brought it lol
metal back same plastic front

 

[Andy78]

What about a side hinged door ?

 

[gottahugenoggin]

20-Way Metal Consumer Unit & 100A Switch | Domestic Consumer Units | Screwfix.com

it didnt have stock clearce when i brought it lol
metal back same plastic front

At least they note it doesn't comply with amendment 3 in the spec's......I wonder if all the large retailers (one in particular) will bother?
" Please note that this Metal Consumer Unit is not compliant to Amendment 3 -2015 of the IET Wiring Regulations"

 

[SJD]

Screwfix do seem now to be clearing out the non-Amd3 boards, sometimes at good prices for the internals.

For example, a few weeks ago, I bought a BG "12-Way Split Load Consumer Unit 80A RCD & 100A Switch" discounted down to £12. The housing itself is ----ed away, but the 80A RCD would have cost me £19 had I bought it on it's own.

 

[PEG]

Yep,they are wearing out the hinges on my letter-box,sending word of all these "bargains"...

I use them sparingly,since a batch of faulty LAP switched fused neon plates,which only functioned when bent or deformed...lad on the counter said "What are you telling me for? ...email someone who cares..."

...I even brought an AVO in,to the counter,to demonstrate the issue...might as well have been showing an I-pod to a seagull :icon9:

 

[NDG Elecs]

and a cow could fly past the window and fart the lid open.

Now that I would like to see Tel!

And here's me thinking loose connections can cause fires!

 

[NDG Elecs]

What about a side hinged door ?

Or double doors with posh shiny handles!

 

[Richard Burns]

Mini roller shutter would be cool:Mr-T:

 

[NDG Elecs]

Mini roller shutter would be cool:Mr-T:

With a battery backed-up electric shutter! Bugger the powers gone off......now where's my remote control for that shutter....!

 

[richy3333]

It's somewhat disheartening to see so many references to cost/price as the lowest common denominator over CU choice. There should be no need to buy materials at sheds. If you can't get good deals at the wholesalers you're not screwing them down on price hard enough.

 

[Midwest]

BG 10-Way Dual RCD Metal Consumer Unit & 10 MCBs | Domestic Consumer Units | Screwfix.com

I'll go to the foot of or stairs......must admit didn't check that one out on the BG site, thought it was plastic cos' of the bottom hinged flap. Looks like they've copied the Hager design, but the other way up!

Think Beama have updated (well June 2015) their 'spin' on A3 CU's with this pdf;

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...pAbRL3dcAKq9ivQ6Ev5oyA&bvm=bv.108538919,d.ZWU

No mention of top mounted hinges, and their interpretation of 'similar switchgear assemblies'

 

[Midwest]

Except for the BG one in the link that is! I am starting to wander where I read the flap bit now...I know I didn't make it up!

With you on that, but now it seems that was the manufacturers 'spin' on the reg; MK 'with a top hinged door that prevents the door being left open after use, which could lead to a possible fire risk'.Crabtree 'Self closing, stay shut door'. Hager 'Unlatched to ensure the door is always left in the closed position maintaining the non-combustible integrity of the unit'.

Have BG become unhinged.

 

[Andy78]

I was in the wholesalers asking about hager AMD3 and saw a pile of BG metal consumer units.
"We got them in to try but they are all gonna have to go back"
"Why ?" I asked.
"The lids flap down and someone said that's not compliant"
"Who did ?"
"A customer I think"
"Yeah I heard that too" piped up another customer
"From who ?" I asked the customer
"Dunno but someone said"

Amazing how hearsay is taken as fact so easily.

 

[Spoon]

Maybe we could have a "myth busting" section on this forum.

 

[Andy78]

Maybe we could have a "myth busting" section on this forum.

In my experience that's already the whole blimmin forum !